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A. C. Grayling in his book ''Among the dead cities'' makes the point that as the [[Area bombing directive]] issued to the RAF on [[14 February]] 1942, focused on the "morale of the enemy civil population", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF "Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries" to help them carry out the directive — The RAF were well aware that the techniques were effective because cities such as [[Coventry]] had been [[Coventry Blitz|subject to such attacks]] by the [[Luftwaffe]] during [[the Blitz]].<ref name="Grayling-51,52">A.C. Grayling (2006); ''Among the dead cities''; Bloomsbury (2006); ISBN 0-7475-7671-8 . Pages 50,51</ref> In the opinion of [[Joseph Goebbels]], the Nazi's Propaganda Minister, the raid fulfilled the RAF's directive for he wrote in his diary "The damage is really enormous, I have been shown a newsreel of the destruction. It is horrible. One can well imagine how such a bombardment affects the population".<ref>Grayling, ''Among the dead cities'' (see [[#References|References]]) Page 101</ref> To help offset the damage the raid had on German morale, the German hierarchy launched a well published raid on [[Exeter]] on [[23 April]] 1942, which was the first of the [[Baedeker Blitz|'Baedeker' raids]].<ref name="Grayling-51,52"/>
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